The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America by Michael C. Cohen

The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America

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Michael C. Cohen

296 pages first pub 2015 (view editions)

nonfiction history poetry sociology reflective medium-paced
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Poetry occupied a complex position in the social life of nineteenth-century America. While some readers found in poems a resource for aesthetic pleasure and the enjoyment of linguistic complexity, many others turned to poems for spiritual and psyc...

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